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Beginning Again: Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

  • Jennifer Huang
  • August 14, 2019
For Little Dog, putting language to memory becomes a way to survive.
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The Demands of Domestic Labor: A Conversation with Megan K. Stack

  • Lauren Puckett
  • June 12, 2019
Megan K. Stack discusses her new memoir, WOMEN’S WORK.
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No-Man’s Land: A Conversation with Angela Mitchell

  • Louise Marburg
  • February 22, 2019
Angela Mitchell discusses her debut collection, UNNATURAL HABITATS & OTHER STORIES.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #163: Padma Venkatraman

  • Niranjana Iyer
  • February 7, 2019
“Stories have a power science doesn’t.”
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Good Enough: Foraging for Answers with Mary Oliver

  • Eve Ettinger
  • January 31, 2019
Creation begets death which begets more creation.
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None of This Is Supposed to Be a Secret: Talking with Erin Hoover

  • Lynn Melnick
  • November 26, 2018
Poet Erin Hoover discusses her debut collection, BARNBURNER.
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How to Keep Calm and Carry On

  • Moshe Schulman
  • August 2, 2018
Your mind doesn't play tricks on you. You play tricks on your mind.
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The Quiet of a Ghost: Talking with Ingrid Rojas Contreras

  • Bradley Sides
  • July 25, 2018
Ingrid Rojas Contreras discusses her debut novel, FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE.
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A Real Good Guy

  • Zoe Marzo
  • July 10, 2018
Doesn’t murder exclude a person from being described as “a good guy”?
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Hannibal Lecter, My Therapist

  • Emily Alford
  • July 2, 2018
In the dark, I felt at home in the underground bunker where the hospital stored its violent men.
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How to Steal a Frozen Burrito

  • Roberto José Andrade Franco
  • June 28, 2018
If you ask me why I did it, I can’t give you a proper answer. I was hungry and didn’t have much money, but it wasn’t like I was homeless or went to sleep starving.
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The Thread: The Masked Man

  • Marissa Korbel
  • June 12, 2018
What I know and don’t know about men matters. What men know and don’t know about themselves matters more.
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